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Paul Ryan to Meet With CBC After Remarks Called Racially Insensitive
After making what many in the black community deemed racially insensitive comments last month, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is scheduled to meet later this week with the Congressional Black Caucus. According to NBC News, the meeting is ostensibly about the issue of poverty. But Ryan also will have to clear up comments he…
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KKK Launching Neighborhood Watch in Pennsylvania
A neighborhood in Pennsylvania’s Fairview Township will be under the protection of a new neighborhood watch group … made up of members of the local chapter of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, PennLive.com reports. That’s right: Members of the KKK are forming a neighborhood watch for the area. The move was…
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Mom Charged After Tossing Newborn in Trash
A South Carolina woman has been charged with attempted murder and child abandonment after she threw her newborn in a trash can, NBC News reports. According to the news station, police arrested Sharon Lenise Ferguson, 28, shortly after a neighbor who followed a trail of blood to the family’s trash can found the boy wrapped…
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Stowaway Teen Prompts Serious Review of Airport Security
When a 15-year-old managed to sneak his way into the wheel well of a jetliner and survive a five-hour flight to Hawaii, despite a lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures, he also sparked a national conversation about just how secure our nation’s airline fleet is. According to the Associated Press, authorities are trying to understand…
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Chris Brown’s Bodyguard Guilty of Assault
On a punching power scale of 1 to 10, Chris Brown is around a 6. His bodyguard’s punch tips the scale at 10. This was the testimony of Parker Adams, an art student who was asked to evaluate the two men’s punching strength in the trial of Brown’s bodyguard, Chris Hollosy, whom Adams alleged beat…
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4 Men Charged With Attempted Murder in Mob Beating of Detroit Motorist
A judge has ruled that four Detroit men accused of beating a driver who accidentally hit a 10-year-old boy will stand trial on attempted murder charges. On Monday, Judge Thomas Jackson found probable cause to move the case to trial after hearing witnesses testify that driver Steve Utash was repeatedly kicked and punched by the…
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6 Steps to Move From College Debt to Financial Success
Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1. I grew up thinking that a college degree would be my ticket to wealth or at least entree into the upper echelons of the middle class. After spending most of my 20s digging my way out of…
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A Woman’s Search for Family History Leads to Singer Nat King Cole
To know someone (in this case for nearly 20 years) can sometimes mean to not really know the person at all. I knew that Caroline Clarke was a foot soldier in the Black Enterprise clan. Married to Earl Graves’ middle son, Johnny, Caroline fit cozily into this black dynasty—not as a lady who lunches, though.…
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Texas Boy Gives Up PlayStation 4 Money to Buy Smoke Detectors
Young Hector Montoya had been saving up for almost a year to buy himself a new PlayStation 4 console, but his plans all changed when he discovered that some people did not have smoke detectors in their homes, NBCDFW reports. According to the 9-year-old Dallas boy’s grandmother, Hector’s decision to take the money he had…
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Distraught Mom Questions EMT Response to Fatal Fire
A New York mother is questioning why EMTs were late to the scene following a weekend fire in Queens that left her 4-year-old daughter and the girl’s half-brother, also 4, dead, The New York Post reports. Khalilah Waymer sang praises for the doctors at St. John’s Hospital saying they “broke their own rules” in trying…